On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Shahed Ali wrote:
> I have a PC with 2 hard disks.
> On the primary master I had Win95 and on the primary slave, I had WinNT
> installed.
> decided to install RH Linux 6.0 on the primary slave.
you deleted nt?
> For this I used disk druid to delete the partition and creat a new
> swap and native partition on the hdb.
correct
> All seemed to go well, and I rebooted the system with lilo installed on the
> first sector of the second hard disk.
> However, instead of seeing the lilo prompt all I get is a screen full of
> 00000000.
dunno. what's first sector of second hdd? not the MBR, right?
you're certainly booting lilo, but something's wrong.
> I then tried to create partitions with fdisk and saw an error saying
> that the number of cylinders on the disk is very large and that this
> may cause errors with lilo. So somehow I managed to get the no of
> C/H/S back to 524/255/63 and tried to reinstall. However I face the
> same problem.
255 physical heads?
that's what linux would say if you booted successfuly. check your drive
geometry.
> Can anyone tell me whats going on ? Is it a hdd problem like errors
> in the partition table ?
(v)erify it with fdisk. and give details, like the following gpm from my
fdisk:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 458 923296+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 * 459 522 129024 83 Linux native
/dev/hda3 523 524 4032 82 Linux swap
[(p)rint, and then write it down and type it in again... unless you're
running gpm and can write emails at the same time that you're running
fdisk]
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